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Ron Britain, WCFL Chicago, March 11, 1970 (unscoped) (1:03:26)

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The "Windy City" Airchecks Collection
… let’s have a little respect for the crystal set …

How fortunate for all of us that the Production Manager at WCFL in the ’70’s was Tom Konard, and that Tom kept so many studio-quality airchecks from The Voice of Labor. Likewise, it was also our good fortune to benefit from the generosity of contributor Tim Benko, who contributed this cassette from Tom Konard’s Aircheck Factory back in 1998.

Back in those days, we didn’t stream unscoped airchecks, and this aircheck of Ron Britain had already been contributed in ‘scoped form by The Don Riley Collection.

This is one of the best-sounding Aircheck Factory cassettes we’ve heard, and since Tim wanted to share it, we are happy to do so in October, 2009. “King B” Ron Britain is all the buzz in this hour packed with goofy sounds and drop-ins, those great TM jingles and at least a few cool hit records. Fred W. Barton is featured with news, and one report covers the Grammy Awards show for 1969.

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